Book
Women of Deh Koh: lives in an Iranian village
Smithsonian Institution Press • Washington • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Friedl, Erika.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is based on a 20-year longitudinal study of women in a rural Iran village. Friedl presents her material in the form of 12 stories. They are rich accounts on a variety of topics, including courtship, marriage, rape, childbirth, barrenness, work, familial relationships, martial disputes, religious practice, divorce, wealth, and poverty. She paints a picture of female and marital relationships within and between extended family households. Her's is a purely female point of view of village life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Leisure time activities
- Verbal arts
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Celibacy
- Household
- Polygamy
- Extended families
- Kinship
- Political movements
- Conception
- Childbirth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lur
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Deh Koh,' Fars, Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Erika Friedl
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88015613
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lur (Iranian people)/Rural women--Iran--Biography/Rural women--Iran--Social conditions/Iran--Social life and customs